allow building from source

[selfisekai]

the module currently cannot be built locally, without downloading prebuilt binaries off github.

this should be available at least as a fallback if prebuilds are not available, or with --build-from-source/npm_config_build_from_source (analogical to node-pre-gyp)

[Hywan]

Thanks for the suggestion. I don’t know how to do that though. Do you have an idea?

[selfisekai]

remove src, Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, build.rs from .npmignore, change the npm postinstall script to something that either downloads the binary or builds it. node download-lib.js || napi build --release? (with an early exit in download-lib.js to always fail when source build wanted)

[Aranjedeath]

I have this same request, I am on FreeBSD and there are no prebuild binaries (.node files) for me on Github. But the rust sdk builds fine locally and produces the .node file for my platform. no way to load it means no way to use draupnir currently.

[ledlamp]

pls so i can use in termux